My bike is heavier

by the mass of just under one nail, since I've ground off the end that
was sticking out.

Anyone got any recommendations for tire fixy people in the Manchester
area? If it's save-able I'd be a happy girl, there's lots of tread on it.

 

National Tyres should be able to fixate on you Cat. they may even sort your
tyre out. If not, then a repair kit (which you should always have with you
anyway) will probably do it. Plugs and a tube of glue with a couple of
little air cylinders usually come in the kits and they're bloody good.

I've fixed a few punctures with those and just left them. I ran 4000 miles
on one set of plugged tyres, so they're not likely to come flying out.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

.... unless it's a kit that you've owned for ~9+ years and never needed
to use, until one day when you discover you've got a puncture, and
you've got to be somewhere in a hurry, so you could really do without
the hassle, then you discover that the plugs have perished and the tyre
won't hold air, so you ride with the flat over to your friendly local
mechanic who takes the tyre off, at which point you discover that the
hole you were repairing wasn't actually the one that was letting the air
out in the first place. Pah.

 

Well there is that


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

I use SMD in leigh town centre or TST in clucheth near risley remand. Never
really had a problem with them in 10 years and they normally plug tires it
they can.

Ken
GSXR

 

What sort of air do you use?

 

Ok, so I'm on the train again tomorrow. The nail is still in the tire.
I don't really understand how the plug kits operate, or if someone with
arms like mine could deliver a plug into the depth of a tire and retract
any kind of stabby tool.

I really am strapped for cash, I'm committed to a rather expensive
educational procedure so I can't say I'm keen to just hand over my
inexperience to an expensive tire repairer. But, I'm also not completely
arrogant about my abilities.

Googling finds me the kits, but not much in the way of instructions or
step by step guides before I commit myself. As things stand, I've done a
few miles on this nail and it's not let the air out, so feasibly I can
still ride it to a mendy place if I don't have the bottle to pull the
nail and use a kit.

I own nothing like tire levers, or bits for getting the wheel out of the
swingarm, so if this has to be done from the inside, I can stop typing.
Would you mind giving me the idiot's/girl's guide to this?

 

'Course yu could. Remove naily object with pliers, squirt glue into hole and
install plug on insertion tool. Blather some glue on the plug and push into
hole. The glue acts as a lubricant, so it's easy to get full penetration.
Withdrawal of tool leaves the plug in place.

It's a bit like ... nah, I won't got here

It's a LOT cheaper to plug a tyre than buy a new one. About 15 quid for your
basic plug kit and about 30 quid for one with all the cyclinders for
roadside blow-up's. If you're at home, you don't need the cylinders as you
can use a foot pump borrowed from a neighbour. (They all have one somewhere)

You could do this.

Any tyre replacement emporium will repair it in seconds and for bugger all
real money.

The plug kit repairs are all done from the outside. Tyre places will do it
from the inside though.

See above


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

I sent a pal of mine to SMD a couple of weeks ago. When they re-fitted his
back wheel, they couldn't POSSIBLY have done a worse job of aligning it with
the chain run.

Thankfully, I'd instructed my pal to being the bike back here after he'd got
the new tyres, so I could make sure they hadn't fucked up. I reckon the
chain and sprox would've lasted about a month the wheel was that far out of
line.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Northern air. It's as thick as ****.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Beav wrote:

Thanks ever-so, I'll avail myself of the above and get back riding.

 

Tyre.

FFS.

 

You could try filling the tyre (well, not actually filling it, but
squirt in the requisite dosage) with some of that puncture seal type
gloop.

Swill it about a bit, reinflate tyre then pull out the nail, see if it
holds.

Might be a more girly-centric option

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


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1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr (IT'S FOR SALE)

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7/8)
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DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

How do clever people get round these blind spots? I deleted the 'tyre' I
wrote several times and replaced it with 'tire' thinking 'Ha, the yanks
won't get me this time.' And, lo and behold I've fooked it up. Should I
just move left-pondian? It's warmer there.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1769
vs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0100

 

Well, if you're going to be selective!

 

Of course!

But I deliberately chose LA as it's usually thought of as "warm" by UK
standards.

 

It's supposed to get to 37C tomorrow here and fire season started
yesterday.

 

Fyre, FFS.

 

I'm beginning to see a pattern develop here.